We celebrated and early Mid-Autumn Moon Festival/TET with friends last night. It’s been unseasonably hot here so rather than the parents shivering as the kids played at the park when we first gathered together, we hung out on lawn chairs while the kids ran through the splash pad! I’ll take 35o/90o weather in September every single time!!
We returned to the house to share a delicious Asian pot-luck dinner. Oh my – so much delicious food!
Thanks to one of the dads not only did we get pictures of our amazing kids,
we also got a picture of the parents! We have been getting together for the past 7 years to celebrate both Mid-Autumn Moon/TET and CNY so these families share a special bond and friendships. Some of the mom’s met over 10 years ago when we used to get together at our bi-monthly Waiting Moms dinners!
After dinner the children made lanterns, some donned their traditional dress and then the lantern parade began. I couldn’t find Hannah but then realized she wanted to be the caboose of the parade. LOL – that’s my girl!
Not sure if this is a lantern parade or a pose for the camera!
I sometimes get teased about carrying a ‘real camera’ instead of just my phone but it’s times like this when it was pretty dark out that I’m thankful. (Hoping to upgrade my iPhone 5 soon and I’m confident my phone picture taking will improve)
When we returned home the final event of the evening was listening to a Tet book from Vietnam. The kids were amazing and you could hear a pin drop when the book was being read.
Thank you for organizing and hosting this wonderful event again this year Julia and Danny! Many of these friendships we share are thanks to you and we appreciate all you do to organize this event each year!
What a wonderful group you have there! Love the celebration!
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